Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gur 



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NEW YORK, MAY 21, 18 91. 



( VOL. XXXVI.-No. 18. 



I No. 318 Bboadwat, New Yobk. 



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CONTENTS. 



Exhtorial. 



Amateur Revolver Champion- 

 ship. 



The Helen Keller Fund. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Ten Days at Rushmore. 



Camping and De-Camping. 

 Natural Histobt. 



' Almost a T' agedy." 



Downy Woodpecker or Sap- 

 suclcer. 



Marine Reservations. 



Can Turkeys Count? 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Toe Wisconsin Flight. 



Duck Hunting in Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Mallard Shooting at Shoal- 

 Water. 



Six Years Under Maine Game 

 Laws.— VI, 

 Sea anj- River Fishing. 



Jvew rtampsbire Trout Season. 



Gone— The Romantic Age of 

 Trouting. 



Some More Tarpon Records. 



The Lfem-^D Sole. 



Angling Notes. 



Off to Maine. 



On the North Shore.— IV. 

 Fishcu"lture. 



Indiana Fishculture. 

 The Kennel. 



Beagle Training. 



Too Much Whistling at Field 

 Trials. 



The Kennel. 

 Val Jean. 



The South American Blood- 

 hound. 



Clumber Spaniels of To-Day. 

 Death of Charles Davis. 

 San Francisco Dok Show. 

 National Beagle Club Trials. 

 Ossining. 



Toronto Kennel Club's Show. 



A Straightforward Challenge. 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootinq 



Range and Gallerv. 



The Revolver Championship. 



The Trophy. 



The Trap. 



More Pieces of Pie. 



Harrisburg Inter-S^ate. 



Missouri State Annual. 



Fun at Findlay. 

 Yachting. 



Mpasurement and Classifica- 

 tion. 



Marjorie. 



Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 



The Ctiange in New York 

 Harbor. 



Mustered Out. 



Lawley's Yard. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Reoratta Programme. 



A. C. A. Racing Rules. 



Nothing Like Leather. 

 Answers to Correspondents 



THE AMATEUR REVOLVER CHAMPIONSHIP. 



WITH the general distribution of the targets prepared 

 for the preliminary trials and practice shoots, the 

 interest in the match for tlie amateur revolver champion- 

 ship of this country is on a sharp increase. There is a good 

 deal of powder burning already under way on account of 

 it, and the prospect is that the record will be set at a very 

 high notch of expertness. 



Just what degree of skill may be required can be judged 

 by looking over a series of Eaglish targets, where the 

 distance shot over is similar fo that set for the champion- 

 ship match here. 



Take for instance the targets made by Mr, Walter 

 Winans, the donor of the trophy. A rough estimate 

 made by him, when asked what he thought the winning 

 score would be in string measurement, was fourteen 

 inches for the eighteen shots and three inches for the best 

 string of six shots. A review of some of the targets made 

 by Mr. Winans shows that he was liberal in his figures, 

 judged by his own efforts. IrL the fall of 1889, at the 

 South London Rifles contest in competition at twenty 

 yards, with a Colt ,4o-caliber, 4^ pounds trigger pull and 

 using English Government ammunition, shooting in the 

 open air, altogether a combination not calculated for the 

 finest w^ork, the record stood 4 inches, 4 inches, and 3f 

 inches respectively for three strings of six shots each 

 making a total of llf inches for the eighteen shots. This 

 target was published in Foeest and Stkeam of Nov, 14, 

 1889. and with such a guide as this for his judgment it is 

 safe to say that jVIr. Winana would amend his estimate to 

 9 inches for the eighteen shots and possibly 2 inches for a 

 string of six. 



Takeagaip a silver ^olUx-, Tt is liin, across or ^in, 



from center to edge. Now 18 shots, measured by circum- 

 ferential distance from the absolute center of target to 

 the breaking edge of the shot, and each one clii^ping a 

 dollar, would make a total string of Idi'm. Now, just put 

 up a disk struck from a dollar, stand 60ft. off, and when 

 you clip that disk every time you are making a score of 

 not worse than 13iin. 



THE HELEN KELLER FUND. 

 A S recorded last week, the money which had been 

 sent to the Forest and Stream for this purpose 

 was sent to Helen Keller; and with it went a list of the 

 names of contributors. In return we have received the 

 following touching acknowledgment written by Helen 

 herself: 



Perkins Institute and i 

 Massachusetts School for the Blind, 

 South Boston, May 19, 1891. ] 



To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 



Will you please thank the kind gentlemen who sent me the 

 money for little Tommy, and tell them that they have helped 

 make two children very happy ? It seems beautiful to me to 

 thiik that the death of my brave, loving Lioness should be the 

 means of bringing so much happiness into the life of our dear 

 little Tommy. I feel very grateful to the friends, far over the 

 seas, who are taking an interest in baby Tom's education. Some 

 day I hope I shall see each one of the dear friends whose names 

 you sent me, and then I shall thank them myself. Thanking you, 

 dear editor, for your kindness, I am your loving little friend, 



Helen Keller. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 TF you cannot go away five hundred miles on a big 

 fishing trip, take a day off and fish the brook in the 

 hollow. Make the most of what you have. This is a 

 solid chunk of what the Hon. Horace Chilton, of Georgia, 

 would call "good old cornfield common sense." 



Our esteemed contemporary, the New York Mail and 

 Express, is taking up a collection to buy reindeer for the 

 starving Estiuimaux of Northern Alaska, in response to 

 Dr, Sheldon Jackson's recent proiDOsal that these deer 

 should be introduced and the natives taught to herd 

 them. The Mail and Express says that every $10 will 

 supply one reindeer; and the subscription now foots up 

 more than $400. 



We have been told of summer visitors who kill Maine's 

 big game and leave it to rot, and of residents who slaugh- 

 ter it in winter snows; and now comes a story that the 

 Passamaquoddy Indians have found in the State Papers 

 at Boston evidence sustaining their claim that treaties be- 

 tween their tribe and Massachusetts (to which Maine 

 belonged) in the last centuiy gave them a perpetual priv- 

 ilege to hunt and fish regardless of any game and fish 

 laws. 



There are so many fish in the Central Park reservoirs 

 in this city, that they would afford capital fun, if only a 

 fly-fisherman could get at them. Gunners are employed 

 to kill vagrant dogs and cats and to reduce the squirrel 

 supply in the park ; why should not the authorities let 

 out the contract of taking some of the big fish to give 

 the little ones a chance? There is a lawyer around in 

 Nassau street who would do the fisliing gratuitously and 

 for pure public spirit. 



What has become of all the State associations for the 

 protection of fish and game which used to meet in annual 

 convention in all parts of the country? There is left to- 

 day not one of them whose assembling means anything 

 for the cause. The target shooters are stronger than 

 ever before, but the game and fish protective efforts have 

 died out. In some States, to be sure, the authorities have 

 taken up the work and voluntary effort has been sup- 

 planted by regularly organized official systems; but in 

 most cases there is still abundant need of concerted 

 action. 



Tarpon fishing has taken a firm hold, and every indica- 

 tion is that the sport will prove to be not an ephemeral 

 fad but a branch of angling whose participants will find 

 in the sport increased fascination and satisfaction in pro- 

 jportion to their experience and skill. An enthusiastic 

 correspondent writes: "My interest in tarpon fishing has 

 not varied; in fact, although I thought I knew it all, I 

 learned something new the present spring and I believe 

 that I have not yet reached complete knowledge of the 

 fish. I have spent six years with him and have not 

 found that custom states his infinite variety. In fact, I 

 found that I felt no inteijest this year i5 'smaU fish,' as 



the guides call all other than tarpon ; and did not drop a 

 line for them at aU, leaving to others, or to chance, the 

 supply of the table." 



Mr. Charles HaUock read before the Cosmos Club the 

 other evening a paper on the "Distribution of Fishes by 

 Underground Watercourses." The essay will appear in 

 the June number of Qoldthivaite's Geographical Maga- 

 zine. 



We wish to communicate with those readers of Forest 

 AND Stream who were specially interested in "Ness- 

 muk's" contributions to the paper, and who would like to 

 share in a projected memorial of him. Will such per- 

 sons kindly send us their names? 



Apropos of Marshal MacMahon's proposed introduction 

 of American jack rabbits into France, our esteemed con- 

 temporary La Chasse Ulustree suggests, "We shall shortly 

 have an opportunity in France to determine if in their 

 stories of the incredible speed of this creature the Ameri- 

 cans have not for once stretched the truth." 



Since his appointment to the command of the U. S, 

 receiving ship Vermont, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, our 

 contributor "Piseco," Capt. L, A, Beardslee, of the Navy, 

 has had little opportunity for whipping the trout brooks; 

 but that he is acquiring honors is attested by his election 

 as Senior Vice-Commander of the New York State Com- 

 mandery of the Loyal Legion. 



It is all very well to talk of communing with nature 

 and studying the ways of the gentle wood-folk; but there 

 is such a thing as starting in on it at too tender and sus- 

 ceptible an age. Two girls and a boy, in the backwoods 

 of Sullivan county, N. Y,, not long ago communed with 

 a wildcat, and the interview drove them stark mad, and 

 they have just emerged from an insane asylum. 



Trap-shooting is having its boom. There has never 

 been anything like it. The target companies are turning 

 out millions of "inanimates" and the cartridge manufac- 

 turers are keeping pace with loaded shells, for each target 

 means the burning of powder. The new Inter-State 

 Association under the direction of Manager Penrose is 

 proving to have been planned on lines of efficiency; and 

 all the meetings have been successful. 



A small boy and a poodle dog on a raft in the middle 

 of the Atlantic Ocean might appear to be in a worse 

 strait than a best man at a New Jersey wedding; but 

 recent events have demonstrated that the chances are in 

 favor of the boy and the dog and against the best man. 

 It has actually happened that the shipwrecked waifs 

 were picked up and brought into port, while the best 

 man was shot and instantly killed by a festive idiot 

 among the guests who pulled out his revolver and blazed 

 away with it purely as an expression of joy at the nup- 

 tials. 



Mr. Alex. Starbuck's happy relation of trouting days on 

 the North Shore has been winning commendatory notices 

 by the editors of the West, who have been or want to go 

 fishing themselves. Mr. Sfcarbuck, by the way, dips his 

 pen in iridescent ink, and his narrative glows with color. 

 Note some of his sparkling appellations: Golden fin — 

 rainbow beauties— darling of the spotted jacket — freckled 

 beauty— the haughty and handsome tribe — the tribe of 

 fontinalis — radiant beauties — ^proud princelings of the 

 watery realm — two lovely specimens of the speckled bri- 

 gade—the jeweled beauties — a monster — mottled darling 

 — a brook beauty — the autocrat of the lake — ^sparkling 

 beauty. 



It is reported that at a meeting of the Cabinet, held on 

 Tuesday last, the question of protecting the fur seals of 

 Bering Sea from ^extinction was under discussion for 

 some time, but that no decision was reached in the mat- 

 ter. It is singular that with the inevitable extermina- 

 tion of this valuable mammal before them there should 

 be this delay. The season for killing is near at hand, 

 and unless Great Britain's proposition is accepted and a 

 close season ordered, the close of the season of 1891 will 

 see such hopeless injury done to our interests in Alaska 

 that they can never hope to recover from it. It is a mor- 

 tifying and humiliating fact that this important interest 

 is receiving its deadliest attack irx ^he yer^ Cabinet of 

 owx Government, 



